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...spouting blood from a main artery. Johnson stuck his fingers in the holes to slow the hemorrhaging long enough for him to get a pressure bandage in place. Stop the bleeding, treat' em for shock, get 'em to a chopper. It wasn't pretty, and it wasn't textbook medicine, but Reid was going to make...
...trial in Dallas of seven New Orleans police officers for violating the civil rights of four witnesses under interrogation would have set any jury's heads spinning. The prosecution laid out allegations of almost gestapo-style brutality; the defense countered with a description of police behavior that approached textbook perfection. Last week the jury in effect delivered a split judgment. While they found four officers innocent of all charges, they said three were guilty of both conspiracy, a felony, and beating a black witness under interrogation, a misdemeanor...
...launch was textbook perfect. The 21-ft.-long unarmed Tomahawk cruise missile arched gracefully away a week ago Sunday from the destroyer U.S.S. Merrill, stationed off the California coast near San Clemente Island. It sped toward its target in Tonopah, Nev., 375 miles away but, to the chagrin of the Navy, never made it. The air-breathing projectile began behaving erratically above sparsely populated regions of Southern California and crashed harmlessly into Los Padres National Forest...
...Oregon children are taught to write decently, interested parents in other states may demand the same for their youngsters. Educators and textbook publishers would be likely to listen. An improved hand would be a boon to American culture. The Getty/Dubay instruction books show that the teaching of proper handwriting evokes children's innate sense of visual order and beauty. It gives children an eye for good design. As Getty and Dubay put it in their foreword in one book in the series: "The various adaptations of italic handwriting are infinite. As handwriting reflects one's personality, we recommend...
...visitors finally broke through on a textbook style give-and-go, with Scott Fusco dishing the puck to Shayne Kukulowicz and getting a back just in time to lift it into the twines for a 1-0 lead...